Striving to be Virtually Perfect

Thu, May 09, 2019

THE FRAUGHT world of social media and the pressures it creates for today’s teenagers is the inspiration for Youth Ballet West’s exciting new show, Virtually Perfect, which plays the Town Hall this weekend.

HEALTH - machine gun riffage industrial tech-rock

Thu, May 09, 2019

HOW TO describe HEALTH? Rock Insider described them as playing "artfully crafted noise and raw synth, haunting monotone vocals, and drum skills that are borderline insane".

Keanu Reeves season at the Pálás

Thu, May 09, 2019

FROM BILL and Ted's Excellent Adventure to Speed to The Matrix, to the more recent John Wick movies, Keanu Reeves has starred in some of the most popular films of the last 30 years.

Poets from opposite ends of the universe

Literature Reviews Thu, May 09, 2019

CHRISTINE VALTERS Paintner and Patrick Chapman are, in most ways, poets from opposite ends of the universe. Dreaming Of Stones is Valters Paintner’s debut collection while Open Season On The Moon is Chapman’s ninth.

Theatre57 hosts public discussion on cultural infrastructure

Thu, May 09, 2019

THEATRE57 WILL host a free public discussion on how a village, town, city, or region can support its creative community, and vice versa, as part of this year’s Galway Theatre Festival.

Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl returns to Galway

Thu, May 09, 2019

PUMPGIRL IS a turbo-charged race through diesel fumes and country music in the boggy border regions of County Armagh, and a journey into the unspoken thoughts and darkest desires of three damaged characters.

Mik Pyro to play first solo show in Galway

Thu, May 09, 2019

MIK PYRO is no stranger to Galway having played the city many times before as leader of The Republic Of Loose, but when he returns next week, it will be to play his first show as a solo artist.

New exhibition from Patrick F Rogers

Thu, May 09, 2019

REFLECT REFRACT is the latest exhibition from artist/animator Patrick F Rogers, which deals with "human anatomy and the space in which it occupies". It is running in the Rezo Café on Eyre Street.

Gráinne Cotter - new single, Galway gig

Thu, May 09, 2019

GRÁINNE COTTER, the Clare born, Galway based, multi-instrumentalist and singer, has released her new single, 'Shadows', and will play the Róisín Dubh as part of her current Irish tour.

Druid announce second Marie Mullen Theatre Bursary

Thu, May 09, 2019

DRUID THEATRE Company is seeking applications for its second Marie Mullen Bursary, which is open to female theatre artists working in Ireland in the fields of design, directing, and dramaturgy.

Galway artist chosen for Aurifil Artisan programme

Thu, May 09, 2019

GALWAY ARTIST Kathy Ross has become the first person in Ireland to be selected for the prestigious Aurifil Artisan programme, which offers artists a global platform to showcase their work.

French post-punk in Galway

Thu, May 09, 2019

LONELY WALK, the Bordeaux post-punk band whose music has drawn comparisons to Wire, Magazine, and Bauhaus, as well as John Carpenter's movie soundtracks play Galway tomorrow.

Elephant to play new Citóg night

Thu, May 09, 2019

ELEPHANT, THE stage name of Dundalk musician Shane Clarke, will play the next instalment of the new music nights run by Citóg Records.

'We hope it will be a new discovery for many people'

Thu, May 02, 2019

SAY SUE Me have been called surf-rock, C86, shoe gaze, and dream-pop. Truth is, they are all of these. You can hear their roots - Yo La Tengo, The Velvet Underground, Pavement, sixties girl groups - but above all they are indie because they embody a very pure expression of what that means as a sound, as a way of making music, as a way of thinking about life.

Pete Johansson to play the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, May 02, 2019

TO GET an idea of Pete Johansson's place in the comedy world, his first comedy special, You Might Also Enjoy…Pete Johansson, was recently released by Netflix simultaneously in 82 countries.

When your freedom is in someone else's hands

Thu, May 02, 2019

IN A dystopian future - in art, is there ever another kind? - people must annually prove their life has worth or risk being burned alive. This is ARBITRATION (or a life worth living), and it is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.

Avengers: Endgame - saving the best until last

Films Reviews Thu, May 02, 2019

FINALLY WE are at the end of Marvel's incredibly ambitious film saga - 22 films, several TV shows, lots of toys and comics, so much money made, and now comes Avengers: Endgame, a direct sequel to last year's Avengers: Infinity War.

Grandaddy's Jason Lytle to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 02, 2019

IN THE late 1990s and early 2000s, Grandaddy were one of the very few American indie/alternative rock bands who really, truly, mattered, and Jason Lytle was their principal singer and songwriter.

Free Comic Book Day 2019

Thu, May 02, 2019

FREE COMIC Book Day happens each year on the first Saturday in May at participating comic book shops worldwide, with this year's event taking place in Sub City Comics, Eyre Square Centre, on May 4 from 11am.

Tom Stade's generational conundrums

Thu, May 02, 2019

TOM STADE is "so cool he could well be the answer to global warming," according to The Scotsman, who also called him "gloriously funny”, as Galway will see when he plays the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

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